52nd Golden Horse Awards

52nd Golden Horse Awards
52nd Golden Horse Awards
	Poster
Date	21 November 2015
Site	Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
Hosted by	Mickey Huang; Lin Chi-ling
Organized by	Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee
Highlights
Best Feature Film	The Assassin
Best Director	Hou Hsiao-hsien; The Assassin
Best Actor	Feng Xiaogang; Mr. Six
Best Actress	Karena Lam; Zinnia Flower
Most awards	The Assassin (5)
Most nominations	The Assassin (11)
Television in Taiwan
Channel	Taiwan: TTV; Hong Kong: Star Chinese Movies; Mainland China: Sina Online; Malaysia: Astro AEC and Astro AEC HD; Singapore: E City
	← 51st; Golden Horse Awards; 53rd →;

The 52nd Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin：第52屆金馬獎) honored the best Chinese-language films and filmmakers of 2014–15 and took place on 21 November 2015 at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. The ceremony presented 23 categories of Golden Horse Awards and was televised in Taiwan by TTV. Mickey Huang and Lin Chi-ling were the hosts of the ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

Best Feature Film The Assassin Thanatos, Drunk Port of Call Tharlo Mountains May Depart	Best Documentary The Chinese Mayor 32 and 4 On the Rim of the Sky The Verse of Us Wansei Back Home
Best Animation Feature McDull: Me & My Mum Monkey King: Hero Is Back	Best Short Film The Death of A Security Guard Under the Sun No No Sleep Filial Piety Award Time to Die
Best Director Hou Hsiao-hsien — The Assassin Chang Tso-chi — Thanatos, Drunk Tsui Hark — The Taking of Tiger Mountain Pema Tseden — Tharlo Jia Zhangke — Mountains May Depart	Best Leading Actor Feng Xiaogang — Mr. Six Lee Hong-chi — Thanatos, Drunk Aaron Kwok — Port of Call Deng Chao — The Dead End Dong Zijian — De Lan
Best Leading Actress Karena Lam — Zinnia Flower Sylvia Chang — Office Vivian Sung — Our Times Shu Qi — The Assassin Zhao Tao — Mountains May Depart	Best Supporting Actor Michael Ning — Port of Call Cheng Jen-shuo — Thanatos, Drunk Lawrence Ko — Murmur of the Hearts Michael Chang — The Laundryman Wang Qianyuan — Saving Mr. Wu
Best Supporting Actress Lü Hsueh-feng — Thanatos, Drunk Elaine Jin — Port of Call Ma Sichun — The Left Ear Jian Man-shu — Maverick Jiang Wenli — The Final Master	Best New Director Bi Gan — Kaili Blues Alec Su — The Left Ear Lee Chung — The Laundryman Xiang Guoqiang — Young Love Lost Frankie Chen — Our Times
Best New Performer Lee Hong-chi — Thanatos, Drunk Jessie Li — Port of Call Michael Ning — Port of Call Cecilia So — She Remembers, He Forgets Ado Kaliting Pacidal — Panay	Best Original Screenplay Jia Zhangke — Mountains May Depart Chang Tso-chi — Thanatos, Drunk Tom Lin Shu-yu and Liu Wei-jan — Zinnia Flower Philip Yung — Port of Call Guan Hu and Dong Runnian — Mr. Six
Best Adapted Screenplay Pema Tseden — Tharlo Sylvia Chang — Office Acheng, Chu T’ien-wen and Hsieh Hai-meng — The Assassin Xu Haofeng — The Final Master Cheng Yu-chieh and Lekal Sumi Cilangasan — Panay	Best Cinematography Mark Lee Ping Bin — The Assassin Hsu Chih-chun and Chang Chih-teng — Thanatos, Drunk Christopher Doyle — Port of Call Yu Lik-wai — Mountains May Depart Lu Songye — Tharlo
Best Visual Effects Kim Wook — The Taking of Tiger Mountain Victor Wong and Bryan Cheung — Rise of the Legend Guo Jianquan and Christian Rajaud — Wolf Totem Jason Snell, Ellen Poon and Tang Bingbing — Monster Hunt Rick Sander and Christoph Zollinger — Gone with the Bullets	Best Art Direction William Chang and Alfred Yau — Office Yohei Taneda and Lee Kin-wai — Monster Hunt Yi Zhenzhou — The Taking of Tiger Mountain Hwarng Wern-ying — The Assassin Liu Qing — Gone with the Bullets
Best Makeup & Costume Design Hwarng Wern-ying — The Assassin Yee Chung-man — Monster Hunt William Chang and Lui Fung-shan — Office William Chang — Gone with the Bullets Zhai Tao and Chen Yuye — De Lan	Best Action Choreography Xu Haofeng — The Final Master Corey Yuen — Rise of the Legend Li Chung-chi — SPL II: A Time for Consequences Yuen Bun — The Taking of Tiger Mountain Liu Mingzhe — The Assassin
Best Original Film Score Lin Shangde and Tseng Yun-fang — Thanatos, Drunk Kung Yu-chi — Zinnia Flower Chen Yang — Murmur of the Hearts Lim Giong — The Assassin Yoshihiro Hanno — Mountains May Depart	Best Original Film Song "Aka Pisawad" — Panay Composer： Suming Lyrics: Suming Performer： Suming "Darkness on the Sea" — Port of Call Composer： Ding Ke Lyrics： Ding Ke Performer： Ding Ke "Twist" — The Laundryman Composer： Luantan Ascent Lyrics： Luantan Ascent Performer： Luantan Ascent "He Bi Ne" — Office Composer： Lo Ta-yu Lyrics： Lin Xi Performer: Eason Chan "A Little Happiness" — Our Times Composer： JerryC Lyrics： Hsu Shi-chen and Wu Hui-fu Performer： Hebe Tien
Best Film Editing Chang Tso-chi — Thanatos, Drunk Zhong Renbo — The Verse of Us Chen Po-wen — Murmur of the Hearts Ding Sheng — Saving Mr. Wu Liao Ching-song — The Assassin	Best Sound Effects Tu Duu-chih, Chu Shih-yi and Wu Shu-yao — The Assassin Kuo Li-chi — The Laundryman Kinson Tsang, George Lee and Yiu Chun-hin — Monster Hunt Tu Duu-chih, Wu Shu-yao and David Richardson — Office Zhang Yang — Mountains May Depart
Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year Hou Hsiao-hsien	Audience Choice Award Mountains May Depart
FIPRESCI Prize Kaili Blues	Piaget Award Mr. Six
Lifetime Achievement Award Li Li-hua

References

^ ^a ^b 第52屆金馬獎
^ "黃子佼林志玲聯手主持金馬". 自由電子報. 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2015-09-15.

External links

Official website of the Golden Horse Awards

[goldenhorse-1] 第52屆金馬獎

[2] "黃子佼林志玲聯手主持金馬". 自由電子報. 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2015-09-15.

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